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For reference, the game is heroes of newerth. Laptop has 4 gigs of ram, 1 gb 9600m GS gpu, and a core 2 duo at 2.6 and 2.7 Mhz. My old laptop died a similar death, as have many of my friend's. Why does this happen, what causes this? Is there any way to fix this situation? The laptop is a young one year old, poor guy, not ready to go yet!